Pakistan Afghanistan T20 World Cup 2022 Practice Match 2022 Live: PAK take on AFG in final warm up match.Pakistan vs Afghanistan, T20 World Cup Warm-Up Match 2022 Live Score Updates: Pakistan will take on Afghanistan in their final warm up game on Wednesday at the Gabba in Brisbane. The last time these two met was at the 2022 Asia Cup, a match mostly remembered for those Naseem Shah double sixes which helped Pakistan win a thriller.
Pakistan recently lost their opening warm-up game against England by six wickets while Afghanistan battered Bangladesh by 62 runs in their own practice match. They will start their World Cup campaign against England on October 22 while Pakistan will play archrivals India on October 23. Both teams will be hoping to build up momentum before their openers and this match gives them the perfect platform to do so.
Follow PAK vs AFG live updates from Brisbane below.
Pakistan will take on Afghanistan in a warm up game. (Twitter/Pakistan Cricket)
Afghanistan struggling here against the raw pace and bounce generated from the Pakistan bowlers. Ominous signs for the rest of the teams in the tournament. That, looks a beast of a bowling attack. 29/3 after six overs.
Update from the Afghanistan camp is that Rahmanullah Gurbaz who had been hit on the foot in the first over has now left the venue for scans.
Haris Rauf strikes in his first over. Darwish Rasooli, unable to get a hold of the short and quick one. Caught by Mohammad Nawaz. 20/3, Afghanistan after five overs.
Afghanistan are 19/2 after four overs. Naseem Shah has mounted pressure from the other end as well. Eight runs off his second over. Good comeback after conceding a boundary off his second delivery to Ibrahim Zadran.
Another one for Shaheen Shah Afridi. Two in two overs now. Cleans Hazratullah Zazai. Almost gets another one on the last delivery of the over. Afghanistan, 11/2 after three.
Afghanistan get their first boundary and first three of the match. Seven runs off that Naseem Shah over. 8/0 after two.
Shaheen Shah Afridi strikes in the first over. A toe crusher to Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who is deemed lbw by the on field umpire. 1/1 after the first over.
Hazratullah Zazai and Rahmanullah Gurbaz in the middle for Afghanistan. Shaheen Shah Afridi has the new ball. Time for the action at Gabba.
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Afghanistan: Darwish Rasooli, Hazratullah Zazai, Ibrahim Zadran, Usman Ghani, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Qais Ahmad, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Saleem Safi, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Pakistan: Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Shan Masood, Fakhar Zaman, Asif Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Wasim Jr
Pakistan win the toss and elect to bowl first.
The last time Pakistan played Afghanistan was in the 2022 Asia Cup. A high stakes fixture in Sharjah that ended up with Pakistan's one wicket win and some real ugly scenes between the players and the fans in the stands. Hopefully those won't be on display today, but with the two sides having no shortage of star studded players, one can expect the fireworks on the pitch in terms of a proper contest. Stay tuned for all the updates here.